He is the latest in a long line of randy TV newsmen whose love lives brought them headlines of their own.

Here, borrowing from Screws — sorry, News at Ten, we rate the broadcasters with a bong rating out of five for just how scandalous their own love lives have turned out to be.

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Former Newsnight presenter left his partner Elizabeth Clough last year after 34 years

For starters, JEREMY PAXMAN already has form, as he is said to have first cheated on Elizabeth — mother of their three adult children — with 36-year-old TV executive Joanna Cecil in 1998.

She admitted being in a relationship with Jeremy — who is said to have hated his own father Keith for running off with another woman — but he has never talked about the rumours, just as now he is refusing to discuss his new relationship.

Rating: Four bongs out of five

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However in 2010, after another split from Madeleine, Jon finally got married — to a woman 27 years his junior, Zimbabwean academic ­Precious Lunga, then 35.

Jon, whose wedding took place on the ­Caribbean island of ­Mustique, once claimed that men naturally think about sex when they meet a woman for the first time.

He said: “Sex comes into every evaluation of a woman, there’s no doubt about it.”

Rating: Five bongs out of five

ANDREW MARR

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Andrew Marr in 'farewell clinch' with former colleague

THE BBC’s 57-year-old former political editor gained an unlikely reputation as a ladies’ man when not one but TWO extra-marital adventures surfaced.

First, in 2011, he confessed that he had used privacy laws to keep secret an affair he had had with another journalist.

Andrew wrongly thought he had fathered a child with the woman until DNA tests proved otherwise.

A year later he was snapped in a messy snog with a younger colleague in the street, though he claimed it was “two drunken journalists having a farewell clinch after working fantastically hard together for two years”.

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Andrew has been married to 62-year-old Guardian writer Jackie Ashley for 30 years

He said at the time: “I’ve since being going about apologising, not least to my wife, for embarrassing all and sundry.”

Andrew, who has resumed his career since suffering a stroke in 2013, has his own Sunday morning political programme on BBC1.

He has been married to 62-year-old Guardian writer Jackie Ashley for 30 years and they have two daughters and a son.

Rating: Two bongs out of five

JONATHAN DIMBLEBY

Jonathan wed his current wife Jessica Ray in 2007

THE Radio 4 presenter left his wife of 35 years, journalist Bel Mooney, to be with his dying lover and is now wed to a woman 31 years his junior.

In May 2003 he interviewed opera singer Susan Chilcott and within weeks they were having an affair.

Jonathan dumped Bel, now 70, and their two kids and moved in with Susan and her four-year-old son.

In September that year she died in his arms, aged 40.

Jonathan, now 72, later said of his fling: “It was odd, but I didn’t want to be away from Bel either — I felt absolutely torn.”

Jonathan dumped Bel and their two kids and moved in with Susan

He and Bel divorced in 2006 and the following year he wed his current wife Jessica Ray a 41-year-old teacher who he said helped him deal with the “double grief” of losing his lover and his wife.

They have two daughters, Gwendoline, seven, and Daisy, nine.

Rating: Five bongs out of five

DAVID DIMBLEBY

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David married TV producer Belinda after fling behind his wife's back

WHEN it comes to questionable attitudes to marriage, David’s view appears to match his brother Jonathan’s.

The Question Time presenter only admitted to a four-year affair on the eve of his silver wedding anniversary to first wife Josceline, 73, in 1992.

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David divorced cookery writer Josceline in 2000

The couple had three children and she didn’t suspect that David, 78, was sleeping with their friend Belinda Giles.

In 2000 David divorced cookery writer Josceline and married TV producer Belinda 20 years his junior.

They have a son, Fred, 18.

Rating: One bong out of five

JOHN HUMPHRYS

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John had a reverse vasectomy so he could have a child with work colleague Valerie Sanderson,

THE 73-year-old Radio 4 broadcaster was married to first wife Edna Wilding for 26 years and they had two children before divorcing in 1991.

In 2000 he had a reverse vasectomy so he could have a son, Owen, with work colleague Valerie Sanderson, then 40.

But they split up and in 2010 he moved on to leftie newspaper columnist Catherine Bennett, 60.

He was photographed with his hand draped casually on her knee during a night out and explained: “She is my new partner. I’ve known her for two years, so not that new. It’s um... whatever you say sounds soppy, doesn’t it?”

Rating: One bong out of five

TIM WILLCOX

Tim started seeing fellow colleague Sophie Long while the pair were still married

BBC News presenters Tim Willcox and Sophie Long started seeing each other four years ago while both were married.

Father-of-four Tim, 53, had even serenaded Sophie, 39, and her husband Will Green with his trumpet at their 2010 wedding.

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Tim was married to Sarah

Tim serenaded Sophie and her husband with his trumpet at their 2010 wedding.

But Tim and Sophie have since split and reportedly moved on to new lovers.

Two years ago Tim, who was married to Sarah was said to be dating married art dealer Tessa Hardy.

And Sophie has been linked with the BBC’s economics editor Kamal Ahmed, 50, who split from writer wife Elizabeth Day in 2015.